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Monday, 18 August 2014

Lesbian Immigration Support Group- banner Making workshop at LGF

Over the weekend I was making a
banner for this year’s pride with the Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG).

What a wonderful collective of vibrant
women! They were all really welcoming and fun to be with.

We all forged together to generate some really
interesting ideas about what they wanted to appear on the banner itself.

We knew just two things, it needed to have the
words ‘Lesbian Immigration Support Group’ and their logo on it.

The rest however was up to the
group themselves to create and we only had the LGF room hired for five hours!

So we started with a quick brain
storm to work out what LISG meant to them individually, this was quite
emotional, the group really does provide a life line of support and hope for
the group.

Through our discussions, they each
came up with symbols to represent the words they had come up with. For family two people kissing or two female
symbols together, a lion for strength, birds and butterflies for freedom etc.

In the end it was decided that
the best symbol was a tree as it represented several things to them. A tree is
a grounding and stable structure, which has the ability to grow and flourish. The
materials of the tree itself represent the diversity of what it is go be a
woman, beautiful, elegant, strong, robust and unique.

The group said that they felt
that before they had found LISG they had no future or hope and with LISG they
had the chance to imagine their own tomorrow for the first time.

So we set to work cutting out
letters and making birds and butterflies to go in the tree. It took us the
whole session to draw and cut everything out that we wanted and now with just a
week left the banner need’s physically sewing together! I’ve given you a little
preview below but you’ll have to wait and see how it turns out!

To check out more about LISG visit: www.lesbianimmigrationsupportgroup.blogspot.com